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Vanita, Ruth
About Ruth Vanita
Biography (Poetry International)
Biography and Bibliography (University of Montana)
Reviews
Cowaloosur, Vedita. “Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 56, no. 5, 2020
Hussain, Mobeen. “Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema.” Film & History, vol. 49, no. 1, 2019
Dasthakur, Saurav. “India and the World: Postcolonialism, Translation and Indian Literature.” Asiatic, vol. 10, no. 1, Jun. 2016
Dasgupta, Rohit K. “Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870.” Intersections, no. 31, Dec. 2012
Dave, Naisargi N. “Abundance and Loss: Queer Intimacies in South Asia.” Feminist Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2011
Nickels, Thom. “Postcolonial ‘Kamasutra’.” Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 14, no. 7, 2007
De, Esha Niyogi. “Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History.“ Signs, vol. 29, no. 4, 2004
Altman, Meryl. “Sappho and the Virgin Mary.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 23, no. 2, 2001
Leonardi, Susan J. “Sappho and the Virgin Mary/Dangerous Intimacies.” Signs, vol. 25, no. 2, 2000
Edinger, Harry G. “Sappho and the Virgin Mary.” International Journal of the Classical Tradition, vol. 6, no. 2, 1999
Marcus, Sharon. “Sappho And The Virgin Mary.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 17, no. 1, 1998
Donoghue, Emma. “Virgin Births.” Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, vol. 4, no. 4, 1997
Interviews
Bhan, Gautam. “Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai in Conversation.” Wasafiri, vol. 50, 2007
Criticism
Trivedi, Harish, et al. “Jane Austen in the Classroom: Some Indian Responses.” Global Jane Austen: Pleasure, Passion, and Possessiveness in the Jane Austen Community, Raw and Dryden (eds.), 2013
Works
Novels
Memory of Light (2020)
Short Story Collections
Vanita, Ruth, et al. The Dilemma and other short stories (1997)
Poetry Collections
A Play of Light: Selected Poems (1994)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema, 2018
“Wilde’s Will: Shakespeare as Model in In Carcere et Vinculis.” The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies, vol. 47, Jul. 2015
“Self-Delighting Soul: A Reading of Yeats’s ‘A Prayer for My Daughter’ in the Light of Indian Philosophy.” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, vol. 24, no. 2, 2014
“Lamb Unslain: Nonhuman Animals and Shelley’s Panentheism.” Godly Heretics, DiPaolo (ed.), 2013
Gender, Sex, and the City: Urdu Rekhtī Poetry in India, 1780-1870, 2012
“The Homoerotics of Travel: People, Ideas, Genres.” The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing, Stevens (ed.), 2010
Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (2005)
Ghandi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture (2005)
“‘Married among Their Companions’: Female Homoerotic Relations in Nineteenth-Century Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India.” Journal of Women’s History, vol. 16, no. 1, 2004
“The Self Is Not Gendered: Sulabha’s Debate with King Janaka.” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 2003
Same-Sex Love in India - Readings in Indian Literature (2002)
Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (2002)
“Same Sex Love and Sacred Texts.” Indian Express, 5 Sep. 2002
“Homophobic Fiction/Homoerotic Advertising: The Pleasures and Perils of Twentieth-Century Indianness.” Queering India, 2002
Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (1996)
With Madhu Kishwar: In Search of Answers: Women's Voices from Manushi (1996)
“‘Proper’ Men and ‘Fallen’ Women: The Unprotectedness of Wives in Othello.” SEL Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, vol. 34, no. 2, 1994
Audio and Audiovisual Material
Ruth Vanita on Courtesans, Women's Love and Friendship. YouTube, 28 Aug. 2020
Ruth Vanita on her Book Memory of Light. YouTube, 20 Jun. 2020
Ruth Vanita Reviews her Book Memory of Light with Natalia Suri. YouTube, 27 May 2020
Ruth Vanita on Courtesans in Indian literary and Cinematic Traditions. YouTube, 6 Aug. 2019
Ruth Vanita Speaks About Hinduism and LGBTQ Identities. YouTube, 29 Jun. 2018
Ruth Vanita: "There's no Going Back to Section 377", Interview Part 2. YouTube, 20 Dec. 2017
Ruth Vanita Interview on Sexuality and the Indian LGBT Movement. YouTube, 6 Nov. 2012
Interview by Jayati Lal. YouTube, Apr. 2004
The Lexicon of Love: Ruth Vanita and Sandip Roy in Conversation. YouTube, undated
Ruth Vanita on Recovering the Histories of Sexuality. YouTube, undated